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Pre-Departure Cultural Preparation for International Students: Addressing Adjustment Needs before Study Abroad

Pre-Departure Cultural Preparation for International Students: Addressing Adjustment Needs before Study Abroad

Tara Madden-Dent, Rita M. Laden
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781466697461|ISBN10: 1466697466|EISBN13: 9781466697478
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.ch011
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Madden-Dent, Tara, and Rita M. Laden. "Pre-Departure Cultural Preparation for International Students: Addressing Adjustment Needs before Study Abroad." Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility, edited by Krishna Bista and Charlotte Foster, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 201-222. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.ch011

APA

Madden-Dent, T. & Laden, R. M. (2016). Pre-Departure Cultural Preparation for International Students: Addressing Adjustment Needs before Study Abroad. In K. Bista & C. Foster (Eds.), Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility (pp. 201-222). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.ch011

Chicago

Madden-Dent, Tara, and Rita M. Laden. "Pre-Departure Cultural Preparation for International Students: Addressing Adjustment Needs before Study Abroad." In Global Perspectives and Local Challenges Surrounding International Student Mobility, edited by Krishna Bista and Charlotte Foster, 201-222. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.ch011

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Abstract

As international students continue influencing U.S. higher educational systems, greater attention is placed on innovative cross-cultural curriculum as well as international student recruitment and retention policies. To contribute research-based implications for practice, the authors introduces findings from a phenomenological study which examined pre-departure and post-arrival experiences of eastern Asian undergraduate international students who either completed a pre-departure cultural preparation treatment or received the university's standard international student services at a western U.S. research university. This study contributes a new understanding of one pre-departure online cultural preparation treatment that increased cultural knowledge and cross-cultural coping in addition to eastern Asian students' recommendations for U.S. higher education to improve international education's pre-departure and post-arrival processes.

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